UEN’L OFFICIAL DIRECTORY BTATE. governor.SUM H«rioomb lieutenant Governor. VJ' “ Bretary of-State...Wm.F. Porter ^Treasurer.J&.VcSnZu State Auditor.John l! i Attorney General.L. J. Bmytne Oom. Lands and Buildings.• • J. Y’ "JV.®**® Supt. Public Instruction.W. K. Jackson REGENTS STATE UNIVERSITY. Ohas.H. Gere. Lincoln; Leavitt Burnham, Omaha; J. M. Hiatt, Alma; E. P. Ro1™6® Pierce; J. T. Mailaleu, Kearney; M. J. Hull, Representatives Flvet District. J. D- 8trode Second, H. D. Meroer, lhlrd. S. Maxwell, Fourth, W. L. Stark, Filth, K. D. Sutherland, Sixth, W. L. Greeu. 00 A (JRESSIONAL. Senators-W. V. Alien, of Madisou; John M. Thurston, of Omaha. JUDICIARY. ..L Post Associates!7/1.6. Harrison and T. L.Norvatl FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT. Jndire .M. P. Klnkald, of O’NelU RenSrter ...........• • J- J- King of O’NelU .W. H. Westover, of Rushvllle Reporter.• ■'hn Maher, of RushvUle. land offices. o'nitL. u.riii«r .John A. Harmon. g&JSX" . .... . ....Elmer W.lllains. COUNTY. . .Geo McCutcheon ; Judge.... v..-ab-irvtmr Glerkofthe District Court ... "JohuSklrvlng iSStV .. .Sam Howard ...Bill Bethea ihfn.Ytv..Mike McCarthy AMWt«mt0l*°°1,'.'.‘.'.'‘.-.-R™- W. R. Jaokson oS^S?..'....'.'...Dr.Trueblood Surveyor. i Attorney. ...M.F. Norton ..W .R. Butler SUPERVISORS. T1HST ginaiOh Cleveland. Sand Creek, Duatin, Saratoga, I Hock Falla and Pleaaantvlew: J. A. Bobertson SECOND DI8TBICT. Shields, Paddock. Scott. Steel Creek. Wit -uwdale and lowar-j* H. Hopkins. I ( THIRD DISTRICT. Grattan and O’Neill—Mosses Campbell. FOURTH DISTRICT. Ewing. Verdigris andDelult—L. 0. Combs. FirlH DIBTBIOT. Chambers, Oonlcv, Lake, McClure and Inman—S. L. Conger. SIXTH DISTRICT. Swan.Wyoming,F*«^ew, Valley, Sheridan and Emmet—O. W. Moss. SEVENTH DISTRICT. Atkinson and Stuart—W. N. Coats. Oil Y OF Of SKILL. Supervisor, E. J. Msok; Justloes,s. U. Benedict and S. M. NVagors; Constables, Ed. MoBride and Perkins Brooks. OOCNOILMSN-FIBST WARD. For two years.—D. H. Cronin. For one year—0.. W. Hagenslok. saooMD ward. For two years—Alexander Marlow. For oneyear-W. T. Evans. THIRD WARD. For two years—Charles Davis. For on# year—E. J. Mack. oitt omouRS. Mayor, H. E. Murphy; Clerk, W. Martini Treasurer, John McHugh; City Engineer John Uorrisky: Police Judge, H. Kautiman; Chief of Police, P. J. Blglln; Attorney, Thos. Oarlou; Welgbmaster, D. Stannard. OR ATT AS T0WS8E1P. *u per visor. B. J. Hayes; Trearurer. Barney ireevv; Clerk, J. Sullivan; Assessor Ben mng: Justloes, M. Castello and Ohas. dox; Constables, John Horrlsky and Ed. Bride; Hoad overseer dlst. -6, Allen Brown tllst. N>il John Enright. 'soldiers RELIEF C0MSI8SI0S. Regular meeting first Monday In Febru ary of each year, and at suoh other times as Is deemed necessary. Bobt. Gallagher, Page, chairman; Wm. Bowen, O Neill, secretary, U. H. Clark Atkinson. UT.PATRICK’S CATHOLIC CHURCH. 9 Services every Sabbath gt 10:30 o clock. Vorv Bov. Cassidy, Postor. Sabbath sohool Immediately following services._ Methodist church. Sunday servloes—Preaching 10:JO A. M. and 8.00 p. M. Class No. 18:30 a. m. Class No. 2 (Ep worth League) 7:00 p.m. Class No. 8 (Child rens) 3:00 p. M. Mind-week servioes—General prayer meeting Thursday 7130 p. m. All will Ge"iade wetaome. 4 1 A. B. POST, NO. 86. The Gen John VX. O’Neill Post, No. 86, Department °t Ne /■, a u _tn maa# #nn flpar unfl tnlPu braska G. A. B., wUl meet the tost and thlrd Saturday evening of each month In Masonic hall O’Neill 8. J. Smith, Com. Invited to attend. W. H. Masom. N. G. O. L. Bright, Sec. ) Garfield chapter, h. a. m Meets on tost and third Thursday of each month In Masonio hall. ___ _ W. J. Dorrs Sec. J. 0. Harhish, H, P KOI P.—HELMET LODGE. IT.D. . Convention every Monday at 8 o olook p. m. In Odd Fellows’ hall. Visiting brethem cordially Invited. __ Arthur Ootkendall, C. C, E. J. Mack. K. of B. and 8. A'NEILL ENCAMPMENT NO. 80.1. U O. O. F. meets every second and f ourth n , •_.a_Add PaIInwa' M all V u, U, V* unuu crwij guvuuu *r„ Tr Fridays of each month in Odd Fellows Hall. Ohas. Bright, h. P. H. M. Tttlbt, Scribe T? DEN LODGE NO. 41, DAUGHTERS Cl OF BBBBKAH, meets every 1st and 3d Friday of each month In Odd Fellows' HaU, Aohrs T. Bentley. N. G. Dora Davidson, Sec. * GARFIELD LODGE, N0.95,F.JbA.M. Regular oommuulcations Thursday nights on or before the full of the moon. J. J. Kino, W. M. Harry Dowling, Sec. HOLTKJAMP NO. 1710, m. w. of a. Meets on the first and third Tuesday In each month In the Masonic hall. Neil Brbnman, V. C. D. H. Oborin, Clerk AO, U. W. NO. 158. Meets aeoond • and fourth Tudsday of each month In Masonic hall. O. Bright, Uec. S. B. Howard, M. W. PI DEPENDENT WORKMEN OP AMERICA, meet every first and third Friday of each month, O. W. Hagensick, N. M. O. J. Oomr, Sec. POBTOFFICK OIRCBTOKY Arrival of Mall* F. a. IX.V.R. B.—FROM CHB BAST, day, Sunday Included at.. 8:40 p a FROM THB WBBT mry day,Sunday laoluded at.10:04 an PACIFIC SHORT LIMB. Passenger-leaves 10:01a. m. Arrives 11 :55 p.m. Freight—leaves 9:07 p. M. Arrives 7:00 P. M. Dally except Sunday. O'NEILL. AND CHELSEA. .apart*Monday,Wed. and Friday at7:00 am arrives Tuesday, Thurs. and Sat. at..1:00pm O'NEILL AND PADDOCK. Opart* Monday. Wed.and Friday at..7:00am Arrives Tuesday, Thurs. and Sat. at. .4:30 p m O’NEILL AND NIOBRARA. Departs Monday. Wed. and Frl. at... .7:00 am Arrives Tuesday, Thurs. and Sat. at...4:00 p m O’NEILL AND CLTMMIN8VILLB Arrives Mon.,Wed. and Fridays a . .11:30!p.m Departs Mon., Wed. and Friday at.1:00 p.m I DON'T HUBBY. A Timely Word ot Warn Ins to Hnbltuul Hashers. Many sudden deaths occur every year as a consequence of running to railway trains and ferry boats, Jbe victims are mostly persons, iniddiit aged or older, who, without knowing it, have some disease of the heart. This kind of over-exertion, how ever, does less harm than the com mon habit of being continually in a hurry. A habit that keeps the nervous system at a perpetual tension leads t,» excessive vital waste, undue suscepti bility to disease, and in extreme cases to nervous exhaustion. Under its in fluences persons naturally amiable are transformed into petulant and uois.,’ scolds. The woman who is a wife and mother is peculiarly liable to this habit; she has so much to do and no little time in which to do It, in these days when so many outside things crowd upon her domestio dut es There is no doubt that hurry olairns ten viotlms where hard work kills one. '41 The man of business suffers in much the same manner. The hurried break fast and the hurried skimming of the morning paper are but the beginning of a hurried day.' Yet it is unsafe for him to aot in a hurry, or in the spirit generated by it. The uncertainties of his calling make entire self-control of prime importance. School children are vlotims of the same evil. They must be at school exactly on time. But in thousands of cases the family arrangements are not such as to favor punctuality, ’lhe child is allowed to sit up late, and so is late at breakfast; or the breakfast itself is lata and the child must hurry through it and then hurry off half fed and fully fretted, dreading tardi ness and the teacher’s displeasure. Robust children may work off the eiiect amid tbe sports of the day. but many others are injured for life Occasional hurry is hardly to be avoided, society being what it is; but the habit of hurry should be guarded against as one of the surest promoters of ill-temper and ill-health. if necessary, less work should be done; hut in many cases nothing is needed but a wiser economy of time. Some of the worst victims of hurry are men who dally with their worn until time presses them, and then < rowd themselves into a fever; pitying themselves meanwhile because they are so sadly driven.—Youth's Com panion. TOO MUCH HAT. A Granger Winds Oat That It Doesn’t Do to ’i rutt m liurber. A old granger dropped Into the Sherman house barber shop reoently. says the Chicago Tribune, who would have proved a gold mine if Denman Thompson could have captured him for his rural drama. His hair looked as if it had not been cut since the last Blaine campaign, and after he had passed through the hands of a barber it is doubtful if his own family would have recognized him. He paid tbe check and the porter brushed the hay seed from his coat and handed him his hat. The old man put on his head covering and it immediately sunk to the level of his eara practically snuf fing out its wearer like a candle. “Here! See here! Tarnatioa that ain’t my hat!” he cried, throwing it down and glaring around the room, every bit of indignation in bis giant frame aroused. ■•Beg pardon, sah; but dat's yo hat. sab, shore’s yo is bohn.” said the highly amused darky. “Don’t ye s’poae I don’t know my own hat?” snorted the rural visitor. ■I’ve worn it every day fer the last two years. Guess I oughter know it purty well by this time. The porter made no reply, but stood holding out the hat and laughing at tbe old man’s earnestness. Suddenly the latter "turned loose” like a torna do and the language he used would have made his own cattle flee in ter ror. The foreman of the shop hastened forward. ■i don't want any of you fellers ter think that I accuse you of talcin' it" exolaimed the irate- customer. * 'But I kin lick the lowdown sneak who crept in here and stole it while I wuz havin' my head shingled. And I shall hold this shop responsible fer it torn Cost $1.69, and I kin prove it.” “But Mr. Butler, are you quite sure that—began the foreman, bal ancing the hat in his hands “Butler! How in thunder did you find out that my name’s Butler?” "It is written on your hat band here- 'See? 'Abner Butler. Piper City. I1L'" The old man hastily snatched up his hat jammed it upon his head and rushed out into a cold and cruel world again, saying several things which can not be put into cold type. Flailing for Merman. One of the old stories is that in the year 1619 two councilors of Christian IV. of Denmark, while sailing between Norway and Sweden, discovered a merman Swimming about with a bunch of grass on his head. They threw out a hook and line, with a slice of bacon, which the merman seized. Being caught he threatened vengeance so loudly that he was thrown back into the sea. Time Enoughs Mrs Bingo—Are you going to the theater in your dress auitP bingo—Of course I am. Mra. Bingo (wildly)—Then why don’t you put it on? Lear. dear. I am almost ready and you haven’t done a thing. Bingo—Don’t worry, dear. I have ample time to put it on while you are seeing if your hat is on straight — Clothier and Furnisher. Had Bead of Them. Father—My eon, don’t you often feel ashamed of yourself for being so lazy? Son—No. dad; not when I think of I all the great men who were notorious* 1 ly lasy in their youth. —Yankee Blade. THB ROYAL MESSENGER. V British Official Who Used to Bo Vei'7 Important on the Rood. When m messenger returns to Lon don from foreign service be is placed at the bottom of the list of those at home available for duty, and may thus reckon on perhaps a fortnight clear at his own disposal, says the Quarterly Review. It is not well however, to count on any precise period of leisure with too much cer tainty. os is shown by the following veracious tale which has been re pented many a Ume and eft in Down ing street: "Captain A- having just returned from St Petersburg, saw his name well placed at the bot tom of a goodly list of names ready for duty, and judged it expedient to spend his anticipated fortnight in the sunny south of France. About a week after his arrival at Monte Carlo he was startled and annoyed by the receipt of the following strange ani apparently impertinent telegram: 'Chief Clerk, Foreign Office, to Cap tain A-: You are fast and dirty. Koturn at once.” Having puzzled awhile over this enigma it occurred to him that, whatever might be the ex planation of the first sentence. the last was an order which his sense of duty compelled him to obey. He ac cordingly packed up his traps and re turned forthwith, to find on his arrival at Downing street that the telegram os originally dispatched ran as fol lows: "You are first on duty. Return at onca ” Thirty or forty years ago, perhaps even more than now, the messenger was a personage of the first importance on the road, claiming the earliest attention from guards And porters, civility and expedition at every customs frontier, and the best places in train and steamboat In the present day. traveling always by train among the ever-increasing crowd of tourists, the comfort and prestige of a journey with dispatches is some what on the wane; and except in times of war. the adventures of the queen’s messenger are reduced to the possible chance of a railway smash. Only a few years have passed, how ever, since most of the habitues of the mall route between London and Paris must have been familiar with the bluff and burly preseuce of Major X-. the Ajax of the corps of queen’s messengers and hero of a hun dred tales. We can see him now, striding from the train to the boat at 1 over, followed by two porters bear ing the dispatch bags. Passengers scatter right and left as he calls in loud, commanding tones: "R-room for her majesty’s dispatches!” and tbe little procession, headed by the major, steps across the gangway and finds its way to the proper reserved cabin. DUST AT SEA. Strange a* It May Seem the Phenomena Is Recorded Tbs British ship Berean. which recently made the voyage from Tas mania around Cape Horn to England, encountered a remarkable, but not unusual phenomenon at sea, via, a storm of dust, declares Sobool and Home. After crossing the Equator, she fell into the northeast trade winda and when about 600 miles west of the Cape de Verde Islands .the nearest land, "the Berean’s sails and rigging were thinly coated with a very fins powdery dust of a dark yellow or saffron color, scarcely discernible on or near the deck, but profuse on the highest parts of the rigging," so that the sails appeared “tanned." Fine dust falling on vessels in the Atlantic near the Cape de Verde arch ipelago has often been reported, but it has so often been of a reddish hue that it is known among sailors as ■red fog," and has been generally supposed to come from South America. The observation on board the Berean appears to overthrow this conclusion, and to determine the African origin both of the Atlantic dust and the so called "blood rains” of Southern Europe. Admiral Smyth many years ago re ported, during his stay in Sicily, on the 14th of Maroh. 1614, a “blood rain," which fell 'in large muddy drope and deposited a very minute sand of a yellow-red color"—quite similar to that now reported by the Berean.' He then regarded it as ■sirocco dust" from the Afrioan desert, crowning the beautiful theory of atmospheric circulation." Both on the Atlantic ocean and in Europe these rains of dust have almost in variably fallen between January and April—a period of the year in which the Sahara is most arid. Unique In Their Way. When Sheffield first became famous for its cutlery a peculiar shaped knife, designed for a variety of usea was made with great care and sent to the agent of the cutlers’ company in Lon don. On one of the blades was en graved the follewing challenge: London, for thy life, Show me such another knife. The London outlera to show that they were equal to their Sheffield brothers, made a knife with a single well tempered blade the blade having a cavity containing a rye straw 2J inches in length, wholly surrounded by the steel; yet, notwithstanding the fact that the blade was well tempered, the straw was not burned, singed or charred in the least, —Times-Star. | A Uad Shut. Daughter—First he kissed my hand. Mother (severely)—An essentially low proceeding. Daughter—But, afterward, he kissed me on the forehead. Mother (more severely)—Then he went too far.—Smith, Gray & Co.’a Monthly. Country Bumpkins, Little Miss De Fashion (at the opera)—I guess those folks in that box is from the country. Mrs. Do F—Why dear? Little Miss De Fashion—I can’t hear a word they say—Good News. A REAL OHOST. seen and Vouched for by • Judge While Living la Nebraska. “So you really believe In supernat ural visitations? 1 had sized you up for a man of too muoh mental power to be a believer in ghost*” said Judge-, ■•Well sir," said L “lam not am bitious to be classed with the supersti tions, but 1 do here affirm that if ever a man'saw a real ghost it was 1," "If it is not a long story toll us about it" said the judge “Well, the supernatural visitation occurred near Halveys ranch, in Ne braska several years ago. It was a bright moonlight night in May. I had been to the ranch for an even ing's visit Between the hours of 10 and 111 started to my home on Little Sandy, a mile distant Asoendlng the hill I turned to the right taking a by-path which was called the •>eut o.f, " which led into a strip of wooda Just before entering the timber re gion, and while musing on the events of the evening, 1 suddenly confronted a figure draped in white lying on a partly deoayed log just at the right alongside the path. Halting quickly, my hand dropped involuntarily to the pistol in my belt but before I had time to draw the weapon the ghost t-rned its head and fixed its gaze upon me. Its great dark eyes were fringed with white hair, and while it looked more in pity than in anger, my heart rose and the pulsation quiokenod to a quiver—every hair of my head felt as though an electric current was opar a* iin iwn nuu my uruaiu seemed dogged—my nerves were par alyzed. The great melancholy eyes of the apparition seemed mockingly to say, “Come to me; your weapon is harmlesa I am as the air—invulner able! I am a real ghost! Sinee that time I have been in Area wrecks and batttee but under no conditions have my nerves been so severely tested or my courage subject to a more serious trial I oould see the eyeballs move —great liquid orbs—and the eyelashes quiver in the great moonlight Re membering the injunction of my mother to never retreat from a ghost under any circumstances, no matter how positive I might be of its ghost ship; but to always advance to it I made a desperate effort to approach the ghostly figure with eyea ears and in the image of a being which imag ination fashions for the spirit world. A sense of fear prevented a retro grade movement—fear that the figure would spring upon me. Bracing my nerves and summoning all my cour age, recalling the early preoepts on the point of supernatural visitations I made a step; or plunge rather, like one leaping over a precipice to escape death, and quick as a flash the illu sion was blasted—it broke in twain. One half of the horrid being trotted off on four legs*’ • What was it,” breathlessly ejacu lated the judge Nothing but a sheep. Two of them had mounted the log to air themselves: They had stretched out, one at the lower qpd of the other, and with his head obscured, forming a figure about the length of a man. The moon was directly overhead, and shone upon the eyes of the one whose head was ele vated. greatly magnifying the eyes and eyelashes. I remember distinct ly the hideous aspect of the upright ears. I recall too the foreleg, which was extended when my eyes first be held tbe object but imagination, quickened by a sense of fear, trans formed the two sheep into a tangible ghost ” NEW TREASURY NOTES. Peculiarities That Make Them DIAenlt to Counterfeit. Perhaps the principal object of the revision of the Unitod States paper money is to make the backs of the notes more open—that la lessoovere.d with the engraving, so that the silk fibres shall be more distinctly visible. The distinctive paper now in use no longer has the two threads of silk run ning longitudinally through the note says the Paper World, but in their place are two stripea each halt an men wide or so, of short red and blue silk fibres scattered thickly in the paper, in such manner that they show only on the reverse of the bill These two fiber stripes practloally divide the note into three sections of about equal size, and this feature of . bre in the paper is held to be an al most absolute safeguard against suc cess'ul counterfeiting. But that is only one of several devices employed to insure tbe inviolability of the cur rency. Each note has an entirely separate desig:’, the work of which is so open as to show readily any error of an ittemptcd counterfeit, and no portion of the design is repeated on the same note, so that no small part could be engraved by a skillful operator and then duplicated by mechanical pro cesses to fill any amount of space, as has been the case with some of the previous "paper money" of the gov ernment The geometrical lathe work of the new designs is said to be the most ex quisite and complicated ever executed, and such as to utterly bafile any at tempt at its illicit reproduction. Johnny w« Rl(kt Mother—Johnny, go Into the bed room at once! You neglected your piano practice to-day and I am going to flog you for it Don’t you know that you can never become perfect in music without practiceP Johnny—Yes, but practloe on my ernatermy ain’t gonter to make no perfeok music.—Boston Courier. Oar modern Hosnu. Mrs. Lincrusta Walton—1 like the design of this wall paper very well; but I cannot take it Salesman—Why not? Mrs. Lincrusta—It is too thlok. It is my flat 1 am going to paper and 1 have to economize space as much as possible.—Puck. FIOHTINO WITH LA89Q8. Angry Cowboy* Hot* ■ Hntl h< Es* citing Dn*l on the Plain*. A fierce, unique duel was fought at Tombstone, A. T., recently by two oowboys, Buster Billings and Jim Collins. They bad quarreled over one thing or another every time they had met Finally, they had a fierce set-to in words over a story one of them told In a barroom about bis skill in lasso throwing, the usual frontier insults were uttered, and the one whose skill had been sneered at— Bus tor Billings—declared that If he were outside be would fling his “lass” over the other one’s peck and drag him to the place that Isn’t mentioned in polite society. Jim dared him to oome on and try it and off they started. They mounted their ponies and gal loped off at breakneck speed, followed by all the men who had or could get horsea Four or five miles from town they stopped; each one picked out two friends from the crowd to watoh pro oeedinga and halt a dozen othera now re-enforced by strangers who galloped out from town sat on their horses in a little group and cheered impartially. The duelists were mounted on mus tang ponlea trained to the habits of lasso throwers and quick to obey the slightest motion of a rider's body. The men with their colled laMats in hand, their faces distorted by anger, oircled around each other for a .mo ment and then the battle began The lasses flew hissing through the air, the men dodged, the ponies sprang to one side, the ropes were ooiled again and went spinning and singing to their atm with such rapidity that the spectators could scarcely follow their movements. Sometimes a lariat would fall on a pony’s back and make him plunge and rear, while his rider did some adroit dodging and ducking until he got the animal under control again. Sometimes it would fall on the shoulder, back or arm of the man. The bodies of both men after the fight were a mass of black bruises and livid welta Tbe fight lasted for bait an hour, say* the New York Sun, and all who saw it agree that It Was the wildest and most exciting half hour they ever pasted The marvelously quick turn* lag and wheeling of the pqnien the grace and skill with whloh the men sat on their horses, their quiokness of eye and hand, and the agility with whioh they avoided the noose and. above all. the rapidity and skill with which the lassos were thrown, made a scene of breathless excitement At the end of half an hour both men were nearly exhausted, but neither was willing to quit When Collins swayed a little in the saddle his oppo nent quick as a flash, took advantage of hie temporary weakness. The lasso went hurtling through the air and the noose fell over Collins’ head and shoulders and a sharp jerk pinioned his arms to his body. Billings gave a fierce yell and started off on a gallop dragging his vanquished enemy be hind him. It was his purpose evi dently to carry out bis threat of dragging Collins to death, but the spectators put spurs to their horsea headed him oft and compelled him te be satisfied with his victory. UNHORSED THE PICKETS. the Clever Bose of a Rebel Cavalryman to Beeure a Mount. The confederate cavalryman was often puazled as to how to provide himself with a horse. The authori ties gave him the choice to keep mounted or go into the ranks with his musket, as horses were not fur nished by the government To be dismounted and become a foot soldier was worse to him than a court mar tial. and he would risk much in bis efforts to get a horse from the enemy. In the fall of 1868 a rebel cavalry man had his horse killed in a skir mish near War ronton, relates the Chicago Herald, and as his best chance was then to oapture one from the enemy, he put his wits to work to devise the ways and means. He was then with the outside pioketa and not far o% on the pika were the oavalry pickets of the enemy. He procured a piece of telegraph wire from the rail road. and when twilight came on stretched this across the road, fas tened one end to the fence and the other to a convenient tree just high enough to catch a oavalryman about the belt When matters were thus arranged to his liking he started down the pike and stopped in plain view of the enemy. It was not long before three of them gave chase mounted on good horsea It was now too dark for them to see the wira and on they oamn de term ned to have a prisoner. The chase was sharp and quickly over, so that by the time the rebel schemer bad passed through and wider his trap the enemy was upon him. The Washington Post thinks the sequel is not hard to guean Two of the pur suers were quickly and most uncere moniously unhorsed, the third being so much astonished and frightened at their fate as to turn and beat a hasty retreat The two horses without their riders continued down the road and were easily captured by the con federate, wha by his olever ruse, became their owner and kept his place in the oavalry. The two pickets left te themselves hurriedly made their way back to their comrades as crestfallen and astonished as two men could well be. The hero of this In cident tells the tale himself, and adds he rode one of these horses to Appo mattox and from there to his home and that it was one of the best he ever owned. A Proof of Iioto. “Are you sureParltsr married Mrs. V. for love?" “Certainly. l)o you suppose a man who not only lets his wife buy his necktlea but actually wears them, doesn't love her passionately?"— Harper’s ”**» — GETTING READY V' Every expectant mother has a trying ordeal to face. If ahe does not p W,W| get ready for H. there ia no telling what may happen. Child-birth hi fall of uncertainties If Nature la not given proper assistance. Mother's Friend ia the beat help you can uae at thia time. It la a liniment, and when regularly ap plied several months before baby cornea, it makes the advent easy and nearly pain less. It relieves and prevents “ morning sickness,” relaxes the overstrained mus cles, relieves the distended feeling, short ens labor, makes recovery rapid and cer tain without any dangerous after-effects. Mother’s Friend is good for only ona purpose, via.: to relieve motherhood of iV; danger and pain, One dollar per bottle at aU drns stores, or sent bj express on rscript ol pries. Tana Books, containing valaabls informa tion for women, will be seat to aay address Upon application to Tttn BRAOnBLO RBOULATOR M, Attests. da. PLAYING CAPOS. ▼«rT UMI* AilknUt BbMr tn VMk My.t.rr About Tktu. The origin of plgytag wti hM bora and (till lea disputed point Soma hlttorUnt credit them .to the Chinese, wha by the way, invented or popu larized many of the Ingenious devioss now in common use Some antiques- i f ions attribute them to the Hindooa who are very skillful players at a card game In whleh ninety-six cards are used, which makes eight suits of twelve each. The story that cards were Introduced into Europe for the diversion and amusement of Charles It. the mod king of Franom hoe long since been disproved. They mode their appearance in Holland, Britain, Spain and Fronoe long before the demented monarch was bora a foot which the editor ef "Notes fpr the Carious”-in the St Louis Republlo says he can' prove to the satisfaction of oertaln be nind-the-times cyclopedia makers, if they osre to change tie old stereo typed falsehood. The early European packs contained fifty-six oards instead of fifty-twa the extras being the "cavaliers” who stood between the queens and the knaves Besides thass the early Western devotees of the game often used as many as '’iSj twenty cards with the same power that the "joker” of the present pack has Some writers claim that West ern Europe was the first to use wood1 f or ivory in plaoe of paper for oarda but Captain Dubois mentions a thir teenth oentury pack of Chinese cards "carved the one and the other from woode; the figures on the same being carved also instead of painted in nut gall which is most common." There was a great deal of history in the gamo of cords as originally In tended. The four kings represented David. Alexander. CsesOr and Charle- ; magne. The queens were Esthea Judith, Palais and Argina During the time of the Amerloon Revolution ' the soldiers whiled away the hours of camp life with cards which had the pictures of Washington, Franklin, Adams and Lafayette in plaoe of the kinga A pack of these historic oddities is now worth many times its “weight in gol